Coleorton Parish

Coleorton Parish in Leicestershire includes the villages of Coleorton, Coleorton Moor, Church Town and Farm Town
as well as parts of Peggs Green, Griffydam and Lount

The Coleorton and New Lount Volunteer Group

News

The Group AGM

The Group’s 2nd AGM was held on Saturday 28th January 2012 and was well attended and was followed by a display for any members of the public to illustrate the progress the group has made during the last year.

Leicestershire Fungi Study Group Survey of New Lount Reserve on Sunday 6th November 2011

The foray was well attended by the group and I accompanied them on behalf of the Volunteer Group. The dry spring and summer had resulted in a generally poor season for fungi, but the recent wet weather had resulted in a wide variety of fungi being found; there were over 70 species recorded. Richard Iliffe of the Fungi Study Group commented, “It was our most productive foray of this season, and as varied and interesting as any previous list made at New Lount.”
Full report >>

New path and hedge laying at Coleorton Wood May 2011

New pathway and hedge laid by the group at Coleorton Wood April 2011

Bat Walk & BBQ

This event on 10 September was very successful and was over-subscribed; all 50 places were filled. The weather was not really suitable as it was too windy; however despite this a number of bats were both spotted and detected. We were also able to record bat echolocation calls which were later analysed and the following bats were identified:-

Common Pipistrelle
Soprano Pipistrelle
Myotis species possibly - Daubenton's Bat
Noctule Bat

Report on Bats recorded during the recent Bat Walk at New Lount Reserve inc summary of the sonogram results >>

The group would like to thank the Rangers for all their assistance with this event, both in cooking the BBQ and in taking the two groups on the bat walk.

The group is looking for more members so if you’d like to help with the work join us on one of our work sessions or contact coleorton11@gmail.com or call 01530 815045.